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height, with branches growing at first horizontally, and 

 then curving rapidly towards the ground, on the surface 

 of which they extend in all directions. The branches are 

 densely crowded, and the branchlets make an annual 

 growth of from 2 to 3 inches. The leaves are thickly 

 borne, and very long. 



C. Deodara pendula, Beiss. (ex " Mitt. d. d. d. Ges.," 

 1900, 100-1). 

 Beissner describes a pendulous form of the Deodar 

 which appears to be very similar in growth to the above, 

 but I have not seen it. 



CEPHALOTAXUS. 



A group of low evergreen trees or shrubs closely allied 

 to the yews, of which the only species which concerns us 

 is C. jpedunculata, Sieb., of which— 



C. pedunculata, var. fastigiata, Carr. (" Conif.," ii. 717). 



Syn.: Podocarpus Koraiensis, Sieb., 

 is a slow-growing fastigiate form, similar in appearance 

 to the Florence Court Yew ; the branches and branchlets 

 are few and sparse, ascending at a very narrow angle ; the 

 leaves are long — up to 2J inches — dark or grey-green, 

 arranged radially and usually recurving. This form was 

 introduced from Japan in 1861. 



C. pedunculata, var. fastigiata aureo-variegata, Beiss. 

 (ii. 66). 



Beissner describes a variegated form introduced as var. 

 gracilis by Christopher Van Geert, of Antwerp, in 1886. 

 He also mentions a dwarf form which I have not seen : 



C. pedunculata, var. nana compacta, Froebel, 

 as a dwarf compact bushy form. 



Hillier of Winchester lists a prostrate form : 



C. pedunculata, var. prostrata, 



which I have just obtained and which appears similar to 



the type in everything except habit. 



